Validation error, please try again. on 4.7.4

By desm0n on 23 Oct 2006 at 13:03 UTC

Everytime i submit a search through my themes search forms i get

Validation error, please try again. If this error persists, please contact the site administrator.

I had previously hard coded this search field and obviously something changed in the search that effects my custom search form.

Heres what i had as my search form in the page.tpl.php template

<div class="search_field">								
<form action="?q=search/node/"  method="post">
<p><span class="grey">Search Example:</span> <span class="search">Port Talbot Chat </span>&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 <input type="text" maxlength="128" name="edit[search_theme_form_keys]" id="edit-search_theme_form_keys"  size="15" value="" title="Enter the terms you wish to search for." class="search" />
<input type="submit" name="op" value="Search"  class="button" />
<input type="hidden" name="edit[form_id]" id="edit-search-theme-form" value="search_theme_form"  />
</p></form></div>

Checking i see some of the ID's have changed so i altered them to look like this -

<div class="search_field">								
<form action="/search/node"  method="post" id="search_form" class="search-form">
<p><span class="grey">Search Example:</span> <span class="search">Port Talbot Chat </span>&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 <input type="text" maxlength="128" name="edit[keys]" id="edit-keys" size="15" value="" title="Enter the terms you wish to search for." class="search" />
<input type="submit" name="op" value="Search"  class="button" />
<input type="hidden" name="edit[form_token]" id="edit-form_token" value="2220bb15109dedb92c709e240dccdaf1"  />
<input type="hidden" name="edit[form_id]" id="edit-search-form" value="search_form"  />
</p></form></div>

This now works in firefox but not in Internet Explorer. Anyone tell me where i'm going wrong ?

4.7.4 is turning out to be a real headache ...

Comments

Add the following code

heine commented 23 October 2006 at 13:15

Add the following code before the closing form tag.

<input type="hidden" name="edit[form_token]" id="a-unique-id" value="<?php print drupal_get_token('search_theme_form'); ?>" />

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Hi Heine and thanks for

desm0n commented 23 October 2006 at 13:30

Hi Heine and thanks for getting back to me. I assumed it was to do with the token but i can't seem to get it quite right here.

I now have it outputting a unique token but its still not working using the snippet you provided.

I added your snippet in place of the <input type="hidden" name="edit[form_token]" id="edit-form_token" value="2220bb15109dedb92c709e240dccdaf1"

and tried both with the id="edit-form_token" and id="a-unique-id" but still get the same. Heres my current code -

<form action="/search/node"  method="post" id="search_form" class="search-form">
<p><span class="grey">Search Example:</span> <span class="search">Port Talbot Chat </span>&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 <input type="text" maxlength="128" name="edit[keys]" id="edit-keys" size="15" value="" title="Enter the terms you wish to search for." class="search" />
<input type="submit" name="op" value="Search"  class="button" />
<input type="hidden" name="edit[form_id]" id="edit-search-form" value="search_form"  />
<input type="hidden" name="edit[form_token]" id="edit-form_token" value="<?php print drupal_get_token('search_theme_form'); ?>" />
</p></form></div>

and my output is

<div class="search_field">								
<form action="/search/node"  method="post" id="search_form" class="search-form">
<p><span class="grey">Search Example:</span> <span class="search">Port Talbot Chat </span>&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 <input type="text" maxlength="128" name="edit[keys]" id="edit-keys" size="15" value="" title="Enter the terms you wish to search for." class="search" />
<input type="submit" name="op" value="Search"  class="button" />
<input type="hidden" name="edit[form_id]" id="edit-search-form" value="search_form"  />
<input type="hidden" name="edit[form_token]" id="edit-form_token" value="a9f44d451869610e68f64fe1f860e8e0" />
</p></form></div>

What am i missing ?
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Our mission is to discuss issues and topics of residents of Port Talbot. We provide info on events, issues, concerns and discussions of our local area.

Just to add this is hard

desm0n commented 23 October 2006 at 13:36

Just to add this is hard coded into page.tpl.php, could this be the issue ? its been there for many months and never had an issue.

The token seems to be generating but the site is not validating it.
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Our mission is to discuss issues and topics of residents of Port Talbot. We provide info on events, issues, concerns and discussions of our local area.

My modification started from

heine commented 23 October 2006 at 13:41

My modification started from the first code block you posted, not the second. Apologies if that caused confusion.

<div class="search_field"> 
<form action="?q=search/node/" method="post">
<p><span class="grey">Search Example:</span> <span class="search">Port Talbot Chat </span>&nbsp;&nbsp; 
<input type="text" maxlength="128" name="edit[search_theme_form_keys]" id="edit-search_theme_form_keys" size="15" value="" title="Enter the terms you wish to search for." class="search" />
<input type="submit" name="op" value="Search" class="button" />
<input type="hidden" name="edit[form_id]" id="edit-search-theme-form" value="search_theme_form" />
<input type="hidden" name="edit[form_token]" id="a-unique-id" value="<?php print drupal_get_token('search_theme_form'); ?>" />
</p>
</form></div>

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aha, that did the trick,

desm0n commented 23 October 2006 at 13:55

aha, that did the trick, many thanks for that.

However if you could, if you have the time that is, i'm curious the difference between the two bits of code. Why didn't the token work for the second bit of code and yet does for the first ?

UPDATE: ah would the second one have been

<input type="hidden" name="edit[form_token]" id="a-unique-id" value="<?php print drupal_get_token('search_form'); ?>" />

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http://www.porttalbotchat.co.uk
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Our mission is to discuss issues and topics of residents of Port Talbot. We provide info on events, issues, concerns and discussions of our local area.

Also - For Trip Search (SQL Search)

wOOge commented 12 March 2007 at 16:34

For trip_search (SQL Search) add this to your form instead:

<input type="hidden" name="edit[form_token]" id="edit-trip-search-form-form-token" value="<?php print drupal_get_token('trip_search_form'); ?>" />

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Validation error, please try again. on 5.2

jenlampton

she / her

commented 23 August 2007 at 03:16

Heine, (If you're still out there) I'm having the same problem on a fresh upgrade to 5.2. My themed search form works on my dev site without any kind of edit[form_token] hidden field. But when I move my search-form.tpl.php file to the live server, I get the validation error.

When I add:

<input type="hidden" name="edit[form_token]" id="a-unique-id" value="<?php print drupal_get_token('search_theme_form'); ?>" />

to my custom template, it still works on my dev site, but when moved to the live server it still fails.

Any hints for me?
Thanks in advance,
Jen

Drupal 5

heine commented 23 August 2007 at 06:03

The output of FAPI changed a little in Drupal 5:

<input type="hidden" name="form_token" id="edit-search-theme-form-form-token" value="<?php print drupal_get_token('search_theme_form') ?>"  />

It's very odd that it fails on the live site and not on the dev site. Perhaps running a diff (diff -uprN folder_live folder_dev) can shed some light on this.
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that still didn't work...

jenlampton

she / her

commented 11 September 2007 at 01:14

Heine,

I think that code you supplied was for the search-box. I'm trying to theme the advanced search page. so I'd guess it needs to be more like this:

<input type="hidden" name="form_token" id="edit-search-form-form-token" value="<?php print drupal_get_token('search_form') ?>"  />

...and magically, it works now!

Jen

<?php print drupal_get_token('search_theme_form') ?>

joeking1 commented 21 September 2007 at 15:14

hi, i might be silly, i am still a newby
i am facing the same problem, can you please explain to me how can i add print drupal_get_token('search_theme_form') to the code drupal is generating in the search form. thanks

Code?

heine commented 24 September 2007 at 01:06

If you let drupal generate the form, there's nothing you need to do. If not, best post the code.
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Cookie?

Jacob commented 10 December 2007 at 15:35

Had the same problem on Drupal 5.5 - had 3 tabs open with the same site, got the error, Googled it and found somewhere the remedy that worked for me - just restart the browser, it seems it's something to do with cookies FAPI uses

Jacob.

Thank-you very much!!! This

TurtleX commented 14 July 2008 at 19:34

Thank-you very much!!! This has been driving me mad and now search works perfectly.

This worked for me too.

resting commented 14 May 2010 at 08:27

This worked for me too. Insert after the submit button.
Still won't work.

Restart browser.

Works now =D
(Drupal 5)

Disable token validation for search forms

mlncn commented 23 January 2008 at 03:14

Worked for us.

http://agaricdesign.com/note/validation-error-search-form-contact-site-a...

^{benjamin, Agaric Design Collective}

^{benjamin, Agaric}

Custom search by node type problem

mikepetersonwi commented 23 April 2008 at 12:21

I've spent hours trying to get this to work with no luck at all. I'm trying to create a custom search block that searches by node type just as if someone was using the Advanced Search (as described at code http://drupal.org/node/141788). When first running the code I received the Validation error as described in http://drupal.org/node/90808. To remedy I added <input type="hidden" name="edit[form_token]" id="a-unique-id" value="<?php print drupal_get_token('search_theme_form'); ?>" />

This resulted in this as my code:

<form action="/search/node" method="post" id="search-form" class="search-form">
<div class="form-item">
<input type="text" class="input-text" value="" size="25" name="keys" />
<input type="submit" value="Search" name="op" title="Search" alt="Search" />
<input type="hidden" name="edit[form_id]" id="edit-search-theme-form" value="search_theme_form" />
<input type="hidden" name="edit[form_token]" id="a-unique-id" value="<?php print drupal_get_token('search_theme_form'); ?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="type[knowledgebase]" id="edit-type-knowledgebase" value="knowledgebase" />
</div>
</form>

The Search form works but doesn't filter by content type (content type: knowledgebase) as I'd like it to.

I'm running Drupal 5.3, any suggestions?

Much appreciated

Validation error (custom node submission html)

k.a.b. commented 11 October 2008 at 22:10

So I have been having some troubles with this validation error and have searched like crazy for a solution to my problem. This post seems most similar and closest to a solution to my problem, but I have not been able to get it to work. I am attempting to create a custom node submission page via html and have been receiving the "Validation error, please try again" message. Within the
in my html i have placed:

<input type="hidden" name="form_token"  id="edit-page-node-form-form-token"  value="<?php print drupal_get_token('page_node_form'); ?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="form_id" id="edit-page-node-form" value="page_node_form" />

with no success. I am at a loss for answers and would really appreciate the advice! Is there a way to disable tokens for a node submission? I am using drupal 5...Thanks in advance!